MS office & Open office compatibility issue

[Stephen]

William Muriithi wrote:
> Hi
>> Consider that a 'page' is defined by the printer setup of the local
>>  computer.
>>
>>  Legal size paper is a larger page, than letter size, for example.
>>
>>  Or do you mean that data in the document is being lost?
>>
>>
> No all the content, every word of it is there. Its just spread across
> more pages in OO than MS office. But now that you mentioned that, may
> be OO default to A4 and MS office to legal size. Would that also
> affect the electronic version, or it only come into play when sending
> it to the printers?

Check the view option.

In MS office it wants to default to a kind of print preview mode. But 
you can wrestle it to draft. I assume OO has similar settings.

The software has to figure out how big a page is somehow. Used to be 
just 66 lines or something like that. But with varying point sizes, 
embedded images, tables, it is very much a crap shoot.

Stephen
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